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Nathan’s and Bathsheba’s Appeals

11 Then Nathan  * 1:11 2Sm 12:1,25; 1Kg 1:8,10 said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother,  * 1:11 2Sm 12:24 "Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king  * 1:11 2Sm 15:10; 1Kg 1:25; 2:15 and our lord David does not know it?  * 1:11 2Sm 3:26; 1Kg 1:18; 2:3212 Now please come and let me advise you.  * 1:12 Pr 15:22 Save your life and the life of your son Solomon.  * 1:12 1Kg 15:29; 2Kg 10:1113 Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne?  * 1:13 1Kg 1:17,30; 1Ch 22:9–13 So why has Adonijah become king? ’